Heraclitus Quotes
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Heraclitus Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.
You will not discover the limits of the soul
by traveling, even if you wander over every
conceivable path, so deep is its story.
by traveling, even if you wander over every
conceivable path, so deep is its story.
Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher.
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.
What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.